Harry Dean Stanton

Harry Dean Stanton

American actor (1926–2017)

Harry Dean Stanton was an American actor and musician. In a career that spanned more than six decades, Stanton played supporting roles in films including Cool Hand Luke (1967), Kelly's Heroes (1970), Dillinger (1973), The Godfather Part II (1974), Alien (1979), Escape from New York (1981), Christine (1983), Repo Man (1984), One Magic Christmas (1985), Pretty in Pink (1986), The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), Dream a Little Dream (1989), Wild at Heart (1990), The Straight Story (1999), The Green Mile (1999), The Man Who Cried (2000), Alpha Dog (2006), Inland Empire (2006), Rango (2011), The Avengers (2012), and Seven Psychopaths (2012). He had rare lead roles in Paris, Texas (1984) and Lucky (2017).

Filmography in the catalog

Credited on 23 films (1959–1999) — matched by name in the Creator or Credits field. Also mentioned in 5 other records (descriptions, transcriptions, copyright notes).

Year ▲ Title CreatorLengthFormatColorSound
1959 A Dog's Best Friend. Premium Pictures Inc. 70 min 35mm B&W sound
1963 The Man From The Diner's Club. Dena Pictures Inc. & Ampersand Co. Inc. 96 min 35mm B&W sound
1965 Ride in the Whirlwind Monte Hellman 82 min Color
1967 A Time For Killing Columbia Pictures Corporation 88 min 16mm Color sound
1967 Cool hand Luke Jalem Productions: Publisher 2:06:00 16mm Color sound
1967 Rebel rousers director, Martin Cohen. 78 16mm Color sound
1968 Day of the evil gun Jerry Thorpe 95 min Color
1968 Day Of The Evil Gun. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. 95 min 35mm Color sound
1971 Cisco Pike Columbia Pictures Industries 95 min Color sound
1973 Dillinger. American International Pictures (Firm) 3625 16mm Color & B&W sound
1974 Where the lilies bloom united artists 97 16mm Color sound
1975 92 In The Shade An ITC presentation 93 min Color sound
1975 Farewell, My Lovely An EK Corporation & ITC production 95 min Color sound
1975 Rancho Deluxe E. K. Corporation 93 min Color sound
1976 The Missouri Breaks. Devon/Persky-Bright 121 min 16mm Color sound
1978 Straight Time warner brothers 113 min 16mm Color sound
1978 Up in smoke Tommy Chong, Lou Adler 82 min Color
1979 Alien Ridley Scott
1980 Death Watch Teleculture Inc. 128 min 16mm Color sound
1980 Death Watch Bertrand Tavernier 128 min Color
1982 The Bear Wilets Bernard 25 16mm Color
1988 The Last temptation of Christ Kino International 163 mi 16mm Color sound
1999 The Straight story David Lynch 108 min Color